"It’s unfair to the people that come from all over the United States to the Sunshine State to get ripped off by scum like this," said one man.

"It was as late as September of this year that they were selling a ticket onto the Titanic as it was going down and they gladly took my $20,000," said another man.

Getting their money back

The state agency that regulates contractors is called the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, or DBPR. DBPR has a recovery fund for people who have suffered damages caused by the financial mismanagement of a licensed contractor. However, that fund is capped at 50-thousand dollars per claim or 500-thousand dollars per contractor.

"It's possible that they will all recover something but there's no way that they can all get recovery for everything they've lost," said Elizette Velado, trial attorney at Goldberg Noone. "Where you have a situation where a contractor has caused financial losses to over 50 people, each claim could potentially be capped at less than $10,000 per claim. There's only so much to go around."

For more information on how to fill out your recovery fund claim form, click here.

What's going on with Stephen Dukes?

On Thursday, the NBC2 Investigators told you that one of the company's owners -- Matthew Harden -- had voluntarily turned in his state contractors license, as the Charlotte County Industry Licensing Board revoked his permit. But what about his business partner, Stephen Dukes? Why wasn't he called before the licensing board?

Dukes is not listed as a licensed contractor. He is listed as a title holder and real estate broker for HD Custom Homes, which means he doesn't have permitting privileges.

What happens now?

As of Friday, the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office said they have received 30 complaints regarding HD Custom Homes. A spokesman said CCSO is "attempting to determine whether any of this information is criminal in nature. All of this is still ongoing."

A spokesperson for the State Attorney General's Office said that it has received and is "actively reviewing" 23 complaints filed against HD Custom Homes.